Lazy Update

[Theodoreorchidking]

I absolutely love this one. It is a tiny plant. Flower is bigger than the plant .

 

[big923cattleya]

That is registered as Paphiopedilum Gisela Utz.
I have it in bloom right now too.

 

[big923cattleya]

That is registered as Paphiopedilum Gisela Utz.
I have it in bloom right now too.

 

[Nelson Wong]

I just realized I have a very similar soup container as a pot for one of my baby phrags Or maybe mine was a container of store bought potato salad! Deli food is a good source of containers lol
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I just the tall to-go soup container for my paphs too and they, somehow, grow better in Soup containers than in pots

Here are picture of the roots of my paph julius in a soup container.

 

[Tom-DE]

Any plastic container will do IMO, especially, if you are going to insert it into an ornate orchid pot. I have used the short soup container from the Chinese take-out places, and some steady pots used for garden plants like annuals...I am going to try the tall soup container someday. How do you guys make the holes--easy way, drill it or use something like hot steel...?
BTW, I even saw on video, Orchids Limited used the tall soup container for their Phrag. kovachii.

 

[Morja]

How do you guys make the holes--easy way, drill it or use something like hot steel...?

Most recently I stuck a screw in a flame for a few seconds and poked holes with that. It was so smooth, and easy to make the holes wider with another round, and I was mad I didn't try that sooner because I was definitely brute-force stabbing with a screw driver before that (and splitting container bottoms pretty often with the lack of finesse).

 

[Nelson Wong]

Any plastic container will do IMO, especially, if you are going to insert it into an ornate orchid pot. I have used the short soup container from the Chinese take-out places, and some steady pots used for garden plants like annuals...I am going to try the tall soup container someday. How do you guys make the holes--easy way, drill it or use something like hot steel...?
BTW, I even saw on video, Orchids Limited used the tall soup container for their Phrag. kovachii.

The Chinese tall take-out plastic soup containers are the best for multi-floral, in my opinion, because multifloral tend to have longer and deeper roots. Once it is more root bound it makes it easier to repot to another taller pot.

For the holes, I just use a drill. 5 to 9 holes in the bottom. And then 4 to 8 more holes on the side 1 inch from the bottom, mostly for drainage. I am sure @Morja 's method of using a flame would be easier, maybe I will heat up my drill bit.

Also Chinese take-out soup containers medium are 4inch, tall are 4.5inch?, which is the perfect size for most paphs, until you get to multiflorals.

Additionally I use the chinese tall plastic soup containers for seedlings because I can just put the seedlings half way and then cover with a lid. It will keep the humidity and promote faster growth.

 

[Tom-DE]

Thank you guys. All are good ideas... I think I could try it with an old screwdriver, and heat it up with my torch.

 

[Theodoreorchidking]

How exsi

That is registered as Paphiopedilum Gisela Utz.
I have it in bloom right now too.

How exciting!!! Twinseys

 

[Theodoreorchidking]

I just the tall to-go soup container for my paphs too and they, somehow, grow better in Soup containers than in pots

Here are picture of the roots of my paph julius in a soup container.

F ya!!!! Team soup container for the win. Honestly there are the only thing I can afford with the sheer number of plants. A thousand dollar saddle on a 5 dollar horse

 

[Theodoreorchidking]

Any plastic container will do IMO, especially, if you are going to insert it into an ornate orchid pot. I have used the short soup container from the Chinese take-out places, and some steady pots used for garden plants like annuals...I am going to try the tall soup container someday. How do you guys make the holes--easy way, drill it or use something like hot steel...?
BTW, I even saw on video, Orchids Limited used the tall soup container for their Phrag. kovachii.

I use a metal chop stick that is heated with a flame. The fumes are well..... a drill would work too.

 

[Theodoreorchidking]

Most recently I stuck a screw in a flame for a few seconds and poked holes with that. It was so smooth, and easy to make the holes wider with another round, and I was mad I didn't try that sooner because I was definitely brute-force stabbing with a screw driver before that (and splitting container bottoms pretty often with the lack of finesse).

Dam don't take your frustration out on the poor soup container

 

[Theodoreorchidking]

The Chinese tall take-out plastic soup containers are the best for multi-floral, in my opinion, because multifloral tend to have longer and deeper roots. Once it is more root bound it makes it easier to repot to another taller pot.

For the holes, I just use a drill. 5 to 9 holes in the bottom. And then 4 to 8 more holes on the side 1 inch from the bottom, mostly for drainage. I am sure @Morja 's method of using a flame would be easier, maybe I will heat up my drill bit.

Also Chinese take-out soup containers medium are 4inch, tall are 4.5inch?, which is the perfect size for most paphs, until you get to multiflorals.

Additionally I use the chinese tall plastic soup containers for seedlings because I can just put the seedlings half way and then cover with a lid. It will keep the humidity and promote faster growth.

I ordered in mass on Amazon.

 

[Theodoreorchidking]

I do 8 on the bottom. 4 on center then 4 on outer ring so water can't collect. Then I do about 8 on the sides: 2 on top of eachother. You can do more if you want it to drie faster. I would just keep them in the bottom half of the container as the top dries fine for me

 

[Tom-DE]

I will do it outside to avoid the fumes trapping inside the house/greenhouse... and a big screwdriver would be my choice now because it has a handle(to avoid the burn).
If you don't need a lot of them, I am sure you can buy a few from a Chinese restaurant.

 

[Ray]

The original semi-hydroponic pot was a 1 quart deli container that had come home bearing won ton soup. Before I got out of the end of the business I must have sold 10,000 of them, plus 4 other sizes.

Buy a 1/4" drill bit meant for plastics. The created nice clean holes and don't dump toxic fumes into the atmosphere like melting does.

 

[Theodoreorchidking]

Another update.

 

[Theodoreorchidking]